Making blades/rotor disk more visible

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paolofcantoni
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Making blades/rotor disk more visible

Post by paolofcantoni »

I'm a newbie to RC helis and to Heli-X in particular.

I'm having difficulty (because I'm an "old fart" ;) , seeing the rotor disk in hover training.

Is there any way to make the rotor disk more visible?

TIA,
Paolo
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Re: Making blades/rotor disk more visible

Post by ThomasC »

Look for a model with rotor blades that have good visibility, e.g. one of the nightflight-models like HELIX600Night. Can be found in <path>\resources\models\helicopter\HELIX600Night - where <path> is the path to your Heli-X installation.
Take the files Mainrotor.mtl and Mainrotor.obj and copy them into the directory of your preferred model.
Start Heli-X and load your preferred model - you're done.

But keep in mind: you will run into the same problem again when flying real models. So it might be a good idea to train what we call "Lageerkennung" (don't know the english word for that) without a look at the rotating blades.

Have fun :)

ThomasC
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Re: Making blades/rotor disk more visible

Post by paolofcantoni »

Hi THomas,

thanks for that... Seemed simple enough, but when I moved the Helix600Night files to the Logo600 folder, the blade disk ended up in the middle of the helicopter.
:o
Is it possible to adjust?

Paolo
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Re: Making blades/rotor disk more visible

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Havent't tried this I must admit. File copy worked for the KDS 450SV and the Blade 130x, others I did not test. Maybe the file copy method is not the perfect solution. So probably Michael can help us out ;) - let's wait for his comment...
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Re: Making blades/rotor disk more visible

Post by Michael »

The way of Thomas is correct. You have then to adjust th second value of

MainrotorPosition

in the xml file of the helicopter.

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Re: Making blades/rotor disk more visible

Post by paolofcantoni »

Hi Michael,

I changed the MainRotorPosition Value from "0,1,0" to "0,2,0" then to "0,10,0" all with NO effect. Am I changing the right thing?

Paolo
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Re: Making blades/rotor disk more visible

Post by paolofcantoni »

BUMP!

Can anyone show me what I'm doing wrong?

TIA,
Paolo
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Re: Making blades/rotor disk more visible

Post by paolofcantoni »

2nd BUMP!

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Michael?

Paolo
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Re: Making blades/rotor disk more visible

Post by ThomasC »

Had the time and tried it myself with the Logo600. Setting MainrotorPosition to 0,100,0 solved the problem. Small values have almost no visible effect. Please try 0,100,0 for the Logo600.

Have fun :)

Thomas
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Re: Making blades/rotor disk more visible

Post by paolofcantoni »

Thanks, Thomas!

Worked a treat!

Now I have a "real" heli to play with in the simulator, not some "science fiction" thing with blades rotating about the main fuselage... :D

Paolo
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